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Registered: ‎09-13-2008
Location: Japan
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How to access SAFE Mode on a X60s

Hi.

I am glad I stumbled upon this forum and I hope someone could give me precisions or leads about what remains a mystery for me with my X60s.

I bought the machine in January 2007 from a second hand PC store in Japan, at that time  she had  no OS.

I successfully installed English XP Pro and since then have encountered no problems whatsoever.

 

What I am worried about is that should the need arise to access SAFE Mode it would be impossible as none of the known Function keys open the SAFE Mode panel.

 

During boot I have tried in succession the regular F8, and all remaining F keys, and DEL, to no avail.

I have access to the BIOS through F1 or the Blue ThinkVantage button.

At a Japanese PC store, and a Japanese support clerk indicated only F8 as key to access SAFE Mode but were at lost to suggest anything else.

 

My BIOS version is 2.09 (7BETC8WW), from 2007.03.14, I could not see an option to allow Safe Mode, if such an option ever exists, and as much as possible I would prefer refraining from upgrading the BIOS,

have run into trouble when something went wrong on another machine.

 

I would appreciate ideas and leads as to how to access SAFE Mode.

In advance, thank you.

 
Fanfold Paper
Posts: 8
Registered: ‎09-13-2008
Location: Japan
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Re: How to access SAFE Mode on a X60s

OK, I found it,

it was only a bad timing,

have to press F8 after the IBM logo screen appears and not before...